Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health
The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.
A human being is a naturally political [animal].
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.